Javier Elvira Mathez

Tasks for TFC seminars on September 29th.

Dani Rodrik's analysis focuses on the main pre requisites for development. According to the
author, two elements are needed: capabilities (defined as both skills and institutional
development) and policies targeted at rapid structural change (industrialization in particular).
Both are needed to produce sustainable, longer-term growth. Both must coexist and develop
in a similar way to overcome imbalances in local development. This interaction between each
variables allows states to compensate in cases that the process of industrialization has not
been materialized: Deindustrialization therefore poses little threat in economies that have
built up adequate human capital and institutions. In such economies, the labor that is
displaced can be absorbed into high productivity services, at little cost to economic growth or
equity (Rodrik, 2014: 45).
An example of this analysis is the relationship between natural resources and development.
Rodriks argues that states that focus on this form of activity (primary etend to reach the limit
of industrial development depending on the development of institutions and human capital.
Excessive dependency in natural resources can affect the posibilites of structural
transformation and slow the growth required to promote industrialization.
From a comparative perspective, Thorbecke articles contextualize the academic framework
Rodrik as the doctrines of later development. In his article The Evolution of the Doctrine
Development 1950-2005 "the author underlines the close interdependence development and
evolution Among Objectives, the conceptual framework and models, data and information
systems, and development strategies THROUGHOUT the last six Decades, where today the
development concept has expanded to include of human welfare and the reduction of multidimensional poverty. Given his studies, it is seen as Rodrik's position is installed in those
where it has complemented the approach institucionaes him that the decade of the 50 that
focused on the perspective economy. A critical element that presneta Thorbecke in distinction
to Rodrik, is the need to think of ways of local development that reference not only to the
improvement of cultural and institutional capital of a state as theories that are based on the
theory of convergence " policymakers need to design and Implement an active development
strategy not only to benefit from, but Also to help counteract some of the negative effects of
the immutable forces of globalization. Globalization Should not be viewed as a reliable
substitute for a domestic development strategy "(Thorbeck, 2007: 32)

Bibliografia:
RODRIK, D. 2014, The past, present and future of economic growth, Challenge 57(3), 5-39.
THORBECKE, E. 2007. The Evolution of the Development Doctrine 1950-2005, in G.
Mavrotas and A. Shorrocks (eds.): Advancing Development: Core Themes in Global
Economics. Palgrave MacMillan.